UN-ARISTOTELIAN APPROACHES TO SHAKESPEARIAN TEXTS
Keywords:
Un-Aristotelian, MonosemanticAbstract
The desire to break away from the aegis of Aristotelian authority had been an intention in literary criticism even before Nietzsche appeared with his book, The Birth of Tragedy in which at loggerheads with the therapeutic effect of the response to tragedy in ‘Catharsis’ (Aristotle, 20), he conceives of its vitalising power born of its Dionysian origins. The ecstatic reality which Nietzsche calls “Dionysian urge” (Nietzsche, xx) has its origin in the profound layers of human psyche.
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